Govt Inspected Meat and other fun summer things
Gov’t Inspected Meat (and other fun summer things)
David McKay Company
Dotson Rader
$1.95
FOREWORD
In Gov’t Inspected Meat and Other Fun Summer Things the author of I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore turns from the quest for political freedom to the more universal quest for individual freedom and personal liberation.
The book follows the odyssey of a young American, a stranger in his own land, who breaks the bonds of middle America in search of self, soul, and country. It depicts with all the sordid savagery of total honesty the depraved sexuality and senseless racism that permeate this country’s new underground: the drugs, junkies, street gangs, black ghettos, homosexuals, transvestites, S&M queens, hustlers, gay bars, delinquents, and prostitutes that are the unheard outcries against sham, hypocrisy, false piety, and respectability in an age of war and social decay. Through this journey to the center of himself, the young hero finds other people as well—a martyred black boy whom he loves—a reckless street kid he befriends—a West Point graduate who thrives on the sexual humiliation of other men—a woman who has had a sex change operation—a modern Maileresque novelist whose two main preoccupations are drinking and death.
For the first time, someone tells what it is like to be a man growing up in America today, the arbitrary standards of masculinity and maturity that lead to self-doubt, self-deception, and eventually to the street, the paid assignation, the sado-masochistic orgy. Dotson Rader sees into the animating forces behind the restlessness of the young today, fed on dreams and weaned on disillusionment.
Gov’t Inspected Meat and Other Fun Summer Things is a novel of tortured brilliance, a soaring affirmation of the possibility of salvation through the twisted avenues of gutter sex and eye-opening experience. Its exploration of the guilt of America in the ‘60s and ‘70s surpasses in intensity the explosive impact of Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Dotson Rader may shock you, may tell you things about yourself or your world you would rather not know. But in an age that demands truth, courage, and passion from its writers, Gov’t Inspected Meat and Other Fun Summer Things should be very much in demand.
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